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'''Digital Commons''' is a hosted [[institutional
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== Features ==
▲'''Digital Commons''' is a hosted [[institutional repository|jnstitutional repository]] platform. This hosted service, licensed by [[bepress]], is "used "by over 500 colleges, universities, law schools, medical schools, healthcare centers, public libraries, and research centers to preserve and showcase their scholarly output and special collections."tbtusa"
Digital Commons is a hosted [[open access]] institutional repository and publishing solution, combining traditional institutional repository functionality with tools for peer-reviewed journal publishing,<ref>[http://digitalcommons.bepress.com/repository-software/journals/]</ref> conference management, and multimedia. Digital Commons supports OAI-PMH version 2.0. Metadata is exposed through the [[Open Archives Initiative|OAI]]. Content published to Digital Commons institutional repositories is optimized for indexing by [[Google]], [[Google Scholar]], and other major search engines.
With Digital Commons [[institutional repository]] software, "institutions can collect, preserve, and make visible all of their intellectual output, including pre-prints, working papers, journal articles, dissertations, master's theses, conference proceedings, presentations, data sets, images, and a wide variety of other content types."<ref>{{cite web|title=Digital Commons FAQ|url=http://digitalcommons.bepress.com/faq/}}</ref>
Digital Commons supports a variety of publication and editorial workflows, as well as peer review. Content is uploaded through batch uploads, by linking to external sites, or via a customizable submit form.
Digital Commons provides user notification tools and options for social sharing. These include RSS feeds and automatic email notification for reports of newly published content, mailing list manager to announce newly published research and social sharing buttons. Digital Commons also provides individual readership statistics to users through its Author Dashboard.
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Digital Commons institutional repositories integrate with other bepress software including SelectedWorks and the Digital Commons Network.
== History
In 2002, [[bepress]], then known as the [[Berkeley Electronic Press]], partnered with the California Digital Library to create the eScholarship Repository<ref>[http://repositories.cdlib.org/escholarship/repository_release.pdf eScholarship Repository Release], April 3, 2002</ref> This entailed "hiding" some of the more sophisticated features of the existing journal publishing system, while adding features such as compliance with the [[Protocol for Metadata Harvesting|OAI-PMH]] harvesting protocol.<ref>{{Cite web|title = Library Journal "Digital Libraries" Columns 1997-2007, Roy Tennant|url = http://roytennant.com/column/?fetch=data/59.xml|website = roytennant.com|access-date = 2016-01-18}}</ref>
In June 2004, [[bepress]] officially launched its Digital Commons institutional repository software at the American Library Association annual conference.<ref>[http://proquest.com/pressroom/pressrelease/04/20041112.shtml ProQuest's Digital Commons@ Winning Broad Market Acceptance], November 12, 2004</ref>
From 2004 to July 2007, Digital Commons was licensed exclusively by [[ProQuest|ProQuest Information and Learning]]. As of July 2007, bepress resumed licensing Digital Commons directly to subscribers.<ref>[http://digitalcommons.bepress.com/institutions.html Institutional repositories published with Digital Commons]. Digital Commons.</ref>
In August 2017, it was announced that [[Elsevier]] had acquired [[bepress]].<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2017/08/03/elsevier-makes-move-institutional-repositories-acquisition-bepress|title=Elsevier makes move into institutional repositories with acquisition of Bepress|access-date=2017-08-25}}</ref>
== Example Sites
* [https://docs.lib.purdue.edu/ e-Pubs, Purdue]
* [http://scholarship.law.georgetown.edu/ The Scholarly Commons, Georgetown Law]
* [http://elischolar.library.yale.edu/ EliScholar, Yale University]
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* [http://engagedscholarship.csuohio.edu/ Engaged Scholarship @CSU, Cleveland State University]
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* [http://digitalcommons.portlandlibrary.com/ Portland Public Library Digital Commons]
* [http://scholarship.law.berkeley.edu/ Scholarship Repository, Berkeley Law]
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== References ==
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